Talk to the pilots.

Re: Connecting to the internet during the trip.

From: DougDate: 12 Aug 1998Time: 01:35:15Remote Name: 192.117.154.91

Comments

The ThinkPad 600 has been working great for most of the trip,
although it did fall on the floor once, and now it wants to run
scan disk every time, and hangs while doing that saying there is
some physical damage to the disk. But it seems to function just
fine (knock of wood!) if I skip/exit out of scan disk and just
run it.

The iPass process for connecting internationally, which is
what first lead me to set up an account with Webbnet, is a
miracle. Local access numbers virtually everywhere we go, with
the highest cost being $15 per hour, and often as low as $4.75
per hour, all with local phone calls.

Connection speed always shows up as 115,200 using the
ThinkPad's internal modem, but obviously throughput is generally
much less. We were able to connect fairly reliably in the
Maldives, but the throughput was excruciatingly slow, and the
line dropped frequently. I suspect they were using a satellite or
microwave link to land lines, and that was the slowest connection
we've found so far. Most places, like here in Israel, offer
excellent connections.

I wish I'd know about iPass while I was travelling
internationally on business. It makes life much easier, and it's
now hard to imagine travelling with a computer without an iPass
account. Great stuff!